Ebony Magazine is the first magazine to land a post election interview/spread of Obama

[LynneSin]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/11/obama_gives_ebony_first_dibs.html

Obama gives Ebony first dibs
by Frank James

So which magazine was the first to get a sit down interview and photo shoot with President-elect Barack Obama?


Ebony Magazine, which was visited by the president-elect at its Chicago offices in the Michigan Ave. headquarters building of its parent, Johnson Publishing Co.

That Obama would give his first magazine and photo session to Ebony seems fitting. The magazine was a pioneer in publishing in much the way Obama's a trailblazer in politics.

Evolved from Negro Digest, which was founded in 1942 by John Johnson, Ebony for decades was one of the few periodicals African-Americans could turn to for images and stories about black strivers and movers and shakers rarely ever seen in the mainstream media.

A black person who made it to Ebony's cover had really made it in the larger sense. Obama is the ultimate African-American striver.


Also, the company's present chairman and chief executive Linda Johnson Rice, the founder's daughter, has long been a member of Chicago's black business and political aristocracy into which the Obama's have vaulted in recent years.

[cyndensco]

1. That's cool. Good choice, Barack.